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A Nation Derailed
![[The inside of a destroyed train car following its derailing at Badrashin. Photo by Jonathan Rashad]](/content_images/3/sm_Train_derail.jpg "[The inside of a destroyed train car following its derailing at Badrashin. Photo by Jonathan Rashad]")
Just ten days before the second anniversary of the 25 January revolution, Egyptians awoke to another railway tragedy. A train loaded beyond its capacity with security forces recruits heading from Sohag to Cairo derailed in the Badrashin area of Giza leaving nineteen dead and over 120 injured, adding to the toll of deaths on train tracks in Egypt. It was only a month earlier that a rushing train in Asyut obliterated a bus full of children, killing fifty of them. In the late ...
Keep Reading »Jadaliyya Launches Media Page!
![[Photo by Manoocher Deghati/AP]](/content_images/3/sm_York-hi-res.jpeg.jpg "[Photo by Manoocher Deghati/AP]")
Jadaliyya is hereby launching its new Media page! This page provides a critical lens from which to explore and analyze the media landscape in and about the Middle East and North Africa. It spotlights new and traditional media players, platforms, and reporting at the local, regional, and global levels. Original articles featured in this page expand the disciplinary boundaries of media studies and communication to look at the intersections of the arts and all forms of ...
Keep Reading »Year of the Ostrich: SCAF's Media Experiment
In April of 1954, less than two years after the military ousted Farouk’s monarchy, it became apparent that the men in uniform would not be relinquishing power in Egypt. The “Free Officers” coup d’etat paved the way for the constitution of the Revolutionary Command Council (RCC), a supra-legal body with executive, legislative and judicial power wielded over every branch of government including the media. Before the RCC decided to exercise its hegemony and muzzle any criticism ...
Keep Reading »Media on Bahrain: An Interview with Alaa Shehabi
![[Screenshot from Al-Jazeera English showing Bahraini military spokesperson on February 17, 2011 following the killing of four protesters by riot police]](/content_images/3/sm_new-bah.jpg "[Screenshot from Al-Jazeera English showing Bahraini military spokesperson on February 17, 2011 following the killing of four protesters by riot police]")
Hotspot, Bloodspot, or Blindspot? Bahrain's protracted and intransigent political deadlock remains one of the paradoxes of the Arab uprisings. At the nexus of regional influence, global political power, and economic interests, the human rights and democracy movement there face colossal challenges to realizing its goals. Not the least of these is a complicated network of media that both advantages and disadvantages the regime and its adversaries. In this video interview, we ...
Keep Reading »"We are All Palestinian Prisoners": Exclusive Interview with Artist Hafez Omar (VIDEO)
![[The original viral image designed by Hafez Omar to support the Palestinian prisoner hunger strike]](/content_images/3/sm_waterSalt2.jpg "[The original viral image designed by Hafez Omar to support the Palestinian prisoner hunger strike]")
Hafez Omar, the young Tulkarm-based artist and activist, is the man behind many of the images we have come to associate with online Palestinian and Arab revolutionary campaigns—from the hunger striker Khader Adnan's stencil with a lock for a mouth, to the late Egyptian Azharite Sheikh Emad Effat, killed by the military police in Cairo in December. His most recent design, that of a faceless, blindfolded Palestinian prisoner, became a Facebook sensation as thousands adopted it ...
Keep Reading »Video: ONTV's Reem Maged on Egyptian Media and the Military (Arabic)
![[ONTV host Reem Maged. Image/ahramonline]](/content_images/3/sm_reemmaged.jpg "[ONTV host Reem Maged. Image/ahramonline]")
Meet the Media with ONTV's Reem Maged The Kamal Adham Center for Television and Digital Journalism hosted its second Meet the Media discussion of the semester on Wednesday, 28 March 2012. The discussion featured Reem Maged, host of ONTV’s Baladna Bel Masry. The discussion was titled “The Media and the Military: A Closer Look at the Relationship.” Moderator Hafez Al Mirazi, director of the Adham Center and host of Dream 2’s Cairo Time, started off by showing the ...
Keep Reading »A Year in the Life of Egypt's Media: A 2011 Timeline [Updated]
![[Cartoon by Carlos Latuff]](/content_images/3/sm_Egypt_Media_Elections_pic_1.jpg "[Cartoon by Carlos Latuff]")
[This timeline is part of a series on Egypt's media after Mubarak. Click here to read "Free at Last?"] FEBRUARY 10: Thousands of protesters converge from different areas in Cairo and Alexandria on the Ministry of Defense and the Northern Military Area, respectively. Demonstrators called for an immediate end to military rule and set up a screening of online-to-offline campaign Kazeboon's (Liars) videos in front of the ministry to showcase violations ...
Keep Reading »Free at Last? Charting Egypt's Media Post-Mubarak
![[Egyptian Armed Forces outside the Egyptian state television and radio building. Image from Almasry Alyoum.]](/content_images/3/sm_Egypttvradioarmy.jpg "[Egyptian Armed Forces outside the Egyptian state television and radio building. Image from Almasry Alyoum.]")
Old Habits Die Hard On the morning of 12 February, Al-Ahram, the Egyptian national newspaper and the publication with the widest distribution in the Arab world, ran a headline over its banner declaring: “The People Have Toppled the Regime.” Like the rest of the government-run media, both print and broadcast, throughout the eighteen days of protest in January and February 2011, Al-Ahram’s coverage of events was replete with misinformation, disinformation, incitement, and ...
Keep Reading »Bio
Adel Iskandar is a scholar of Arab studies whose research focuses on media and communication. He is the author and coauthor of several works including Al-Jazeera: The Story of the Network that is Rattling Governments and Redefining Modern Journalism (Basic Books). Iskandar's work deals with media, identity and politics and has lectured extensively on these topics at universities worldwide. His latest publication is an edited volume entitled Edward Said: A Legacy of Emancipation and Representation (University of California Press). His two forthcoming works are books on the role of new media and dissidence in the Arab world. Iskandar teaches at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies and the Communication, Culture and Technology program at Georgetown University in Washington, DC.
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